It hopes to corner the market there for loans to homeowners who might not qualify for bank credit.
Mirabilis's goal is to corner the market, says Yossi Vardi, the company's first investor and head of business development.
TLDs new ones every year, perhaps it would be virtually impossible to corner the market.
The exchange guarantees all trades and deliveries, and will monitor members' positions to guard against attempts to corner the market.
But his staff is unlikely to corner the market on Internet creativity.
"Chinese companies want to corner the market on these resources, " says Ecclestone.
Buried in the various announcements Facebook made on Wednesday about updates to its mobile efforts was this: Facebook is looking to corner the market on location-based user data.
To corner the market, one of the two billionaires will first have to win over Comcast, which is currently offering Microsoft's Foundation Edition software and testing the Moxi box, made by Allen's company, Digeo.
The problem came when his brother Otto devised a scheme to corner the market on UCC stock by aggressively buying it, waiting for prices to soar, then forced the short-sellers to repay the borrowed stock.
This is not the first time a mess has appeared in the metals markets, though previous scandals have tended to involve long positions (bets on rising prices, the opposite of short-selling) and attempts to corner the market.
The Texas connections led to Khalid's involvement with the Hunt brothers' attempt to corner the silver market, which collapsed along with silver prices in 1980.
Ofcom initially believed Sky was trying to corner the retail market.
Why would China want to corner the gold market?
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Kennedy announced an investigation and Congress held hearings as the case grew wider to include federal agriculture programs and an alleged attempt to corner the liquid fertilizer market in West Texas.
Then, by the time everyone was coming around to the idea that the last invincible corner of the market was finally rolling over, the correction seemed to end Tuesday, and stocks like Apple and Priceline were back in positive territory amid a surge for the broader market.
Perhaps we will call this the "job loss recovery" because we don't seem to have turned the corner in the labor market--and it appears much worse than earlier jobless recoveries (thanks to Erica Groshen at the New York Fed for finding that the first use of the term "jobless recovery" was in The New York Times in the 1930s).
Even just putting efficiency and alternatives on an equal footing with heavily subsidized fossil fuels would level the market enough to turn the corner and create local jobs and component manufacturing here in the United States.
"If the market has indeed turned the corner, we will have ample time to make commitments...because the average bull market since 1900 has lasted in the neighborhood of two years, " says Sullivan.
Italy needs to get a firmer hold on this corner of the market if its dominance of the fashion industry is not to be threatened.
The Case-Shiller data adds to evidence that the market has turned the corner.
And the point is that Republicans certainly do not have a corner on the market when it comes to interest in reducing the deficit.
Once people start turning the keys to new homes, this market turns a corner, and so does most of the world economy.
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In 1979 Business Week proclaimed the death of stocks, failing to see that waiting around the corner was the largest, longest stock market expansion in history.
And the Android Market icon is now easier to find in the top right corner of the App Tray.
With the month of August just around the corner, much of Europe is set to go on holiday, which means the market place will have fewer players the next few weeks.
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Technicians point to the low volatility of the VIX Index and forecast a sizable market correction around the corner.
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Moreover, I would not rule out actively managed ETFs for investors where they provide access to some specialized expertise in a far flung corner of the market.
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The UK's labour market may be "turning the corner", with more firms looking to hire staff than let people go, a survey of more than 2, 000 firms suggests.
Residential investment also grew 15%, adding to evidence that the housing market has finally turned the corner.
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